The film follows a group of six young tourists who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an "extreme tour" guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years ago. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, however, the group soon finds themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone...

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I agree. But, I'm surprised a nuclear explosion from a power plant did not destroy the ENTIRE city, killing everyone. I'm talking about the real life disaster. Yet the city survived, did it not? If so, how is that possible.

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I agree. But, I'm surprised a nuclear explosion from a power plant did not destroy the ENTIRE city, killing everyone. I'm talking about the real life disaster. Yet the city survived, did it not? If so, how is that possible.

To put it simply, it lost containment of some fluidic systems, it wasn't a control rod meltdown/explosion.

If you think of a car, it was like the radiator blew a gasket and steam went everywhere, but the gas tank didn't blow up. A crude comparison, but it shows a part of the whole system that can breakdown, but not result in an explosion.

I met her, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and not even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this cow, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach her, and then another seven trying to keep her locked up because I realized that what was living behind that cow's eyes was purely and simply... evil.

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I agree. But, I'm surprised a nuclear explosion from a power plant did not destroy the ENTIRE city, killing everyone. I'm talking about the real life disaster. Yet the city survived, did it not? If so, how is that possible.

It was not a nuclear explosion as you would understand it. An explosion in the power plant caused the leakage of lethal amounts of radiation. It also did not kill everyone, most where evacuated. Only 31 died from it directly.

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It was not a nuclear explosion as you would understand it. An explosion in the power plant caused the leakage of lethal amounts of radiation. It also did not kill everyone, most where evacuated. Only 31 died from it directly.